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People who are into dragons are furries, it's not a literal term. Their furry subgroup is usually called scalies, which besides dragons and snakes include peopl
by cess11 2y ago
People who are into dragons are furries, it's not a literal term. Their furry subgroup is usually called scalies, which besides dragons and snakes include people who are into things like salamanders and other amphibians.
I'm under the impression that such taxonomies are less important to these in-groups than whether you're just into the aesthetic or get off on it sexually as well.
- JCattheATM 2y agoDisney movies and 80s cartoons with talking animals really created a whole new subculture.
- seabass-labrax 2y agoIt certainly didn't start with 80s cartoons - anthropomorphized depictions of animals feature among the oldest written works. Aesop's Fables are 2500 years old, and the geographic dispersal of similar stories indicates that they originate even further back than that.
- JCattheATM 1y agoSure, but it was 80's kids who started tuning in every week, nay, day, and forming emotional attachments with cartoon animals.
- cess11 2y agoAustin Osman Spare did it earlier than that, as did some of the old greeks and others.